Stock-watering tank.



A. N. EATON. srroox WATERING TANK.

APPLICATION FILED MAILB, 1909.

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STOCK-WATERING TANK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 25,1909.

Application filed March 8, 1909. Serial No. 481,990.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT N. EATON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented certain. new and useful Improvements in Stock Watering Tanks, of which the following is a specifioation.

This invention relates to improvements in stock-watering tanks, of the class usually constructed of metallic sheets, and which provide a secondary or smaller watering tank or compartment which is automatically filled by operation of a valve connected with the stock tank, the secondary tank occupying a part of the containing space of the stock tank and used as a drinking place for swine or poultry.

The object of the invention is to provide a combination stock and poultry tank comprising few parts and of simple construction so that it may be economically manufactured, and will not easily get out of order after the tank is completed.

The invention has reference to the employment of a hood having curved flanges for seatings respectively upon the bottom and wall of the tank to form the compartment within and at the lower part of the tank.

In constructions heretofore presented for this purpose a receptacle has generally been secured upon the inner face of the wall of the tank, and supported as an appendage upon the vertical wall of the tank. The recepta cle or appendage frequently becomes detached from the tank wall, since it has no support upon the bottom of the tank. The terminal rail or rim of the stock tank is always sufficiently low so that water will be accessible to stock, and it frequently hapens when the supply of water is low that cattle step into the tank, and detach the receptacle, and unless a provision is accordingly made of a particular form for the covering, roof or hood. of the secondary compartment, and unless it has an adequate sup port, it will be easily injured. Therefore, as will be explained, the present invention. has reference to a conical hood, so reinforced. by its curved flanges that it will be effective to resist lateral stresses or strains, and will be effective and useful for the purposes required.

Stock tanks are usually manufactured and shipped in carload lots, one tank being placed within another to economize space,

the secondary receptacles being shipped separately and secured in position and soldered in the tank by a local tin-smith after the individual tank has been purchased. Another object of the invention therefore is to provide simple parts free from complications so that any person of ordinary skill may secure the secondary compartment in the stock tank.

VVith these and other objects in view the invention comprises anovel combination and arrangement of parts as described herein, pointed out by the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein,

Figure 1 is a planviewpartly broken away, of my newly invented stock watering tank. Fig. 2 shows a broken away portion of the stock tank and a front view of the secondary compartment, the guard rail being broken away to show the location of the valve. Fig. 3 is a vertical side view of the stock tank, the broken lines indicating the location of the secondary tank. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail relating to Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is an enlarged view showing a part of a stock tank in section and a compartment or secondary watering tank formed therein, a part of the hood, covering or partition being torn away.

Referring now to the drawings for a more particular description, numeral 1 indicates an ordinary stock watering tank, having a bottom 2; a circular, vertical, containing wall 3 with a terminal rim 4; these tanks are generally constructed of galvanized iron sheets or the like, and rim 4 is generally of a sufficient diameter so that cattle or other like stock when drinking will not be injured thereon when leaning over this rail or rim.

In order that swine or poultry may obtain water from the tank, an aperture 5 is formed in wall 3 near bottom 2, and a hood 6 having a horizontal longitudinally curved flange 7 is secured to the bottom 2 of the tank and having a vertical longitudinally curved flange 8 formed thereon. and secured to wall 3 to provide a secondary compartment 9. Flanges 7 and 8 are secured, preferably, by rivets 10 and by soldering the flanges respectively to the bottom and side wall to make a water tight construction.

In order that water may be admitted from the stock tank to the secondary compartment, and may be under automatic control to cause a limited sup ly therein, I provide the float 11 having the longitudinal threaded arm 12 secured thereon. At 13 is shown a supporting arm having at one end a pivotal mounting 14 upon brackets 15 secured to the hood, its opposite end furnishing a mounting for the threaded arm 12 of the float; intermediate the pivotal mounting 14 and the mounting of arm 12 is the valve-arm 16 having the terminal ball 17 seated in the valvehousing 18, this housing having a tube 18 traversing the wall ol the hood;

and it will be understood that when the water becomes low in the secondary re ceptacle the float will be lowered and arm 16 will cause the cut-oii or valve 17 to move from its seating, away from the aperture of tube 18, thereby allowing water to flow through perforations 20 of housing 18 and to pass into the secondary tank. When tank 9 has been partly filled, the float will be elevated, which causes a closure of tube 18 By reason of the threaded connection. of arm 12 01 the float with the outer terminal of supporting arm 13, an adjustment may be made, as is apparent, for controlling the amount of water in receptacle 9.

It will be noted that the hood which forms the partition between the stock tank and compartment 9 is inclined downwardly and inwardly of the vertical wall of the tank to a support upon the bottom 2, and after being secured to these parts it is adapted to withstand lateral strains or stresses. The hood. has a height, preferably, greater than its width and its shape is substantially similar to that of a vertically bisected cone, and it is therefore adapted to withstand any l'orce directed thereon from the upper part of or from within the stock tank, and, therefore, the objectionable features above mentioned, of a bucket or other receptacle supported upon the wall as an appendage, are wholly avoided.

At 21 is shown a guard or longitudinal rail having brackets 22 at its e. "said brackets being secured at opposite es of the hood. Said. rail 21 is disposed-between opening and the float, its purpose being to prevent accidental injury to the parts which operate the valve.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

1. The combination with the bottom and the circular, apertured wall of a watering tank, of a hood having an outwardly curved body with a horizontal, longitudinally curved flange adapted to have a rigid seating upon said bottom and provided with a vertical longitudinally-curved flange adapted to have a rigid seating upon the wall 01' the tank to define a compartment inwardly of and circumscribing the aperture of said tank wall; a valve housing secured upon and having a tube communicating with the interior of said compartment; a hinged arm within the compartment having a float thereon, said arm having a valve for engagement with said valve housing, the operation being that an elevation of said float will cause engagement of the valve with said valve-housing.

2. The combination with a watering tank having an opening in. its side, of an arched metallic plate having a continuous flange formed upon its edge, said plate secured with its flanged edge engaging a part of the side and bottom interiorly of said tank, to deflne a compartment adjacent said side wall opening; a valve and housing supported upon said arched metallic plate; a float in said compartment having a hinged arm in communication with said valve, the operation being that a lowering of said float will cause an opening of said valve.

3. The combination with a watering tank having an opening in its side, of a curved metallic hood having a vertical terminal flange in engagement with the side 01' the tank to circumscribe said side opening, said hood having a horizontal, terminal flange in engagement with the bottom of the tank a float within the hood, a housing having a valve therein and supported upon the hood; and a hinged arm secured to the float and connected with said valve. 7 r

4. The combination with a watering tank having an opening in its side, of a curved hood having a curved base with a terminal, horizontal, longitudinally curved flange adapted to have a rigid mounting upon the bottom of the tank; said hood having a curved side wall disposed upwardly and inclinedly from its base to and for a mounting upon the side wall of said tank, the mounting of the side wall of .said hood circumscribing said opening in said tank wall; a float within the hood, a housing having a valve therein and supported upon the hood; and a hinged arm secured to the float and connected with said valve.

5. The combination with a watering tank having an opening in its side, of a curved hood having acurved base with a'terminal, horizontal, longitudinally curved flange adapted to have a rigid mounting upon the bottom of the tank; said hood having a curved side-wall disposed upwardly and inclinedly from its base to and for a mounting upon the side wall oi said tank, the mounting of the side wall 01' said hood circumscribing said opening in said tank wall a valve within said tank; means within the hood and connected with said valve [or causing a passage of water from the tank to said hood.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence 01' two witnesses.

ALBERT N. EATON.

l/Vitnesses HIRAM A. STURGEs, ARTHUR H. S'rnnons. 

